Episode 152 - An Ambitious Unworthy & Vainglorious Fellow
This is the story of Sir Christopher Newport & John Smith and the colony at Jamestown. Smith is often lauded as the driving force behind the first successful English colony in the New World, but he wa...
18 Feb 202038min
Episode 151 - The Lost Colony
The colony at Roanoke has long been an integral part of American Mythology, and the mystery of the Lost Colony has fascinated people for centuries. But should it? Today we talk about Roanoke's lost co...
11 Feb 202041min
Episode 150 - Roanoke
It's time we discussed the colonization of North America. The Nine Years War will introduce the world to pirates from New York, Boston, and Providence that will shape our story. However, North America...
4 Feb 202039min
Episode 149 - War!
We're discussing the outbreak of the Nine Years War. The Huguenot population were pushed into exile, many to England, where they fed into the anti-Catholic, anti-Stuart movement. William III taking th...
29 Jan 202047min
Episode 148 - Femme Fatale
In the 1670s King Louis XIV was the most powerful Monarch in world. France stood atop the cultural and military pyramid of Europe, but the cracks were beginning to show. The decline of France and her ...
22 Jan 202044min
Episode 147 - The Sun Was High
This is the story of the French Zenith, through the lens of foreign policy and war. King Louis XIV came into his majority and almost immediately began a series of wars that made him the most powerful ...
14 Jan 202048min
Episode 146 - Playing Mars
Today we're talking about the second Fronde, which was a formative political event in the lives of many young sailors who would go on to sail west and become buccaneers. Learn more about your ad choic...
7 Jan 202033min
Episode 145 - Before The Dawn
In our lead up to the Nine Years War, we're talking about France. This is the early reign of King Louis XIV. That means the power struggles within the Bourbon Dynasty, Cardinal Richelieu, Cardinal Maz...
26 Dec 201944min
